On one of the cars I sold I get.. Date of Liability 01 02 1999 Vehicle Status Unlicensed Spose it means it's either bin scrapped or written off.
One of my neighbours is declared SORN, but he still uses it but it's parked on his drive when he's not.
Just need it to tell you whether a car's reported stolen, now.
Gøñzølã (T o p @ S e c r e t . c o m) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
Yep. Or just sitting somewhere without either tax or SORN for the last seven years...
And does he have a current tax disc in the windscreen?
Can't be SORN, it'll be listed as it if it was. I reckon he killed himself in it, he was only young :o)
Can't say I've noticed, I only noticed the back when he drove past earlier.
Gøñzølã (T o p @ S e c r e t . c o m) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
D'you think that might be why I said "without either tax or SORN"...?
Worth a little look...
If it's untaxed, is it insured? MOTd?
If not taxed I am quite sure even if he has a policy his insurance company would back away quickly.
Sad thing is, despite all the advertising, if you report this to the police they're not interested - we've had a couple of people round us do this regularly. Even had a case when one parked his unlicensed, un-MOT'd (you could see the road through the floor!) tranny van on our garden when we went away for a few days! Told the police, they got him to shift it, but it was then parked on the road nearby for two weeks - Plod couldn't care less.
Typical isn't it.....For the last 9 years, since I started driving, I have always kept up to date with my tax, insurance and MOT, but last year I let things slip and paid for it. Quite literally.
I had to attend the International Sandcastle-building Tournament which was being held in Dagbad (!!). Short notice to go away and all the other pressures caused me to forget about the fact that the road tax would expire whilst I was away, so when I remembered, about 2 weeks after the tax ran out, I promptly got in touch with DVLA only to find that they had issued me with a =A380 penalty for failing to re-tax my car. Cheers!
Not that I'm bitter, but I know a guy who has no tax, mot or insurance and only holds a provisional licence and he drives around town every day of the week with his boy racer chums.
How come, after several phone calls to the local coppers and DVLA, he is still getting away with it whilst those of us who made a genuine mistake get stiffed with a fine??
Chris Bolus ( snipped-for-privacy@RILEYELFb0lus.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
F*ck that. If it was in MY garden, I'd be straight on the phone to a scrappy to collect it.
IME, you'd have great difficulty persuading them to take it without the V5.
Chris
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 11:51:56 -0800, CK wrote: SNIP
Not for much longer........... The scrotes soon won`t be able to get off their estates. Our city was festooned with CCTV a few years back. Now they have software on them reading all number plates as cars enter town. The paper is full of fines and community service for no tax/insurance/licence. They are now extending it to main roads in the district and have some mobile set ups. I thought there was a national initiative for this too? Best thing that has happened for years around here :) Mik
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It's certainly reduced the number of dodgy old bangers where I live.
Yeah, absolutely. I got stung for not one but two "failure to SORN"s a cople of years back. They take it out on those of us that care about our reputations and let the scum carry on regardless. Bitter? Let's just say I'm not like the Murphy's.
The honest are easier to find and extort^h^h^h extract money from.
I`m sure the government get more income from criminalising innocent mistakes than by prosecuting / fining career criminals.
I wonder how hard it would be to get some figures on that - you could include drivers with one-off inadvertant speed scamera fines.
It's not about income. I suspect the fines don't pay for themselves directly.
However without the enforcement the income raised by VED would go down significantly, so it does pay for itself in the end - just not by the fines.
cheers, clive
My car was sat on the roadside whilst awaiting parts for the MOT (bloody jaguar in plymouth, bunch of muppets) and the tax ran out, about 12 days in total. renewed it the same day it passed the MOT and not heard anything about a fine... yet...
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Didn't ask me for it when they picked one of my spares cars up when I'd finished stripping it. ;-)
Buggered if I was paying £19.00 so I could send it back saying it had been scrapped.
Mark S.
Chris Whelan ( snipped-for-privacy@prejudicentlworld.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
Not IME.
"It's already been sent back to DVLA as scrapped, mate"
In the not too distant past I've tried two local scrappies to collect an old MOT failure.
First thing they both asked was whether I still had the "log book". They both said "Sorry mate, we're not allowed to take it without that".
My assumption was that they hoped to get a ticket on it and sell it as a runner.
It may be that as the price of scrap has risen recently, it is worth them collecting again.
Chris
or use it to ring a stolen car
Ignore it. I got one of those when I was overseas (not quite such a warm and welcoming place) and ignored it. It was never followed up - retaxed the car the next year with no trouble.
Mike
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